It was indeed a good radio!
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Doran Platt
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 6:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-27
Indeed the venerable ARC-27 did an excellent job. In the early 1960's, our ADC sqdn. had 3 T-33As. The MTBF for the ARC-27 was probably one year of ops. We flew them daily for lateral support, Peggy chaffm/target missions, and other ash-and-trash missions. Never had one go NORS for want of a spare from base supply at Dover. I have what's left of one, the blower being used on a GRC-19. That larger type c-box looked like a slot machine when channeled. ...hi!!
Jeep K3HVG
On 03/25/2024 8:12 PM EDT [email protected] wrote:
There must have been several Collins employees in the looney bin, as it was
a pretty diverse team: JP Giacoletto, M.R. Hubbard, Horst Schweighofer, EK
Vick, Fred Holm, John Goetz, Emil Martin, H. Lehman, and Gordon Nicholson.
Production started in late 1950, and with USAF contracts added to USN,
Collins was producing 1000 sets per month. The initial contract was about
15,000 radios, produced by September 1952. Western Electric produced
another 10,000, and Admiral built 25,00 for Collins, All tolled, Collins
built 40,000, so my math says 75,000 odd ARC-27s were produced That's a lot
of 2C39s! In addition, 25,000 GRC-27s were built! No wonder everyone owns
at least one! Can you imagine how cool that radio must have seemed in 1952?
I still marvel at how well it works after 70 odd years. Need to try to dust
of our 222 MHz AM net here in PHX.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 12:05
Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-27
An engineer I worked with in my first job out of college, at OC-ALC, had
been in the USN as a radio tech. He was taught how to work on the ARC-27
and said that word was around the tech school that the engineer who designed
the ARC-27 had gone insane. The students found that was easy to believe.
Wayne
WB5WSV
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